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The Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia has sent to all the public administrations of Catalonia a document of recommendations to prevent the risks in the exercise of the public powers during the crisis of the COVID-19.
The recommendations issued by Antifraud seek to increase citizens' trust in public authorities by reinforcing ethical commitment, transparència, the control and, later, the evaluation and accountability of public entities during this crisis to preserve the rights of people, particularly those most disadvantaged.
In the field of Transparència, the document proposes to specifically create a dedicated COVID-19 space on the portals of transparència of the public entity where all information related to can be easily foundwith the answer to this crisis:
- Iinformation on all actions or programs aimed at meeting needs (grants, aid and benefits of any nature, transfers…)
- Joint, accumulated and detailed information on all contracts processed by emergency, as well as without advertising (minors and negotiated)
- Information on approved contingency plans (in as much detail as possible).
- Activated occupational risk prevention measures
In the field of Transparència, the document proposes to specifically create a dedicated COVID-19 space on the portals of transparència of the public entity where all information related to the response to this crisis can be easily found to facilitate accountability to citizens and scrutiny by civil society.
For Antifrau it is not a question of limiting this space to the health data that are already being offered or to the mere list of approved regulations, but of showing all the information related to the public action and among other elements they emphasize:
- Information on all actions or programs aimed at meeting needs (grants, aid and benefits of any nature, transfers…)
- Joint, accumulated and detailed information on all contracts processed by emergency, as well as without advertising (minors and negotiated)
- Information on approved contingency plans (in as much detail as possible).
- Activated occupational risk prevention measures
You can check the detail of the Antifraud proposals for the COVID-19 space
And if mine wants to advance us in the creation of this space and is a user of the portal transparència of the AOC?
At an operational level, and for those entities that want to make these spaces available to citizens, the portal transparència offered by the AOC Consortium has the possibility of create your own items transparència.
In this sense, the creation of an own item “COVID-19”, in the family of Institutional and Organizational Information, that facilitates to advance in personalized descriptions (following the recommendations of Antifraud) could be an effective solution.
Duplication of information should be avoided, however minimize the efforts of AAPP workers in their obligation to publish information. The COVID-10 item created ad-hoc could incorporate links to information from the website itself. transparència or the entity's website, documents, tables or images, therefore being a simple and open enough option to be able to respond.
For entities that choose to deploy this space, remember that on the main page of the portal of transparència you can choose to highlight the item in the highlights, and/or edit any of the proposed banners, reinforcing the image and access to the space in question. You can consult How to customize the Seu-e and Transparència?.
